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This is not to say that Mendelssohn's music is merely happy talk. One of the greatest prodigies in musical history, young Felix wrote 13 symphonies for string orchestra before the age of 15 and produced a full-blown work of genius at age 17 in the dazzling, quicksilver Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, the most successful purely instrumental interpretation of Shakespeare ever written. Yet Mendelssohn had the emotional range to evoke the craggy, forbidding atmosphere of the Hebrides in his "Fingal's Cave" Overture, summon up the combative spirit of the Scottish highlands in his Third Symphony...
BENNY GOODMAN: Private Collection. Chamber music of Brahms, Beethoven and Weber. Benny Goodman, clarinet, with Leon Pommers, piano, and the Berkshire String Quartet (Musicmasters; 2 LPs). The King of Swing's classical recording career dates back to 1938, when he recorded the Mozart Clarinet Quintet with the Budapest String Quartet. These performances of the Brahms Clarinet Quintet and Trio in A Minor, Beethoven's Op. 11 Trio for piano, clarinet and cello, and Weber's Clarinet Quintet, which date from about 25 years ago, are | distinguished by Goodman's bright, bracing tone and fleet fingerwork. Although the clarinet naturally predominates...
Freshman Sarah Duncan (12 points, six rebounds, three blocks, two steals) extended her string of consecutive free throws to 26, as the entire squad continued its torrid team shooting from the charity stripe. Harvard hit 14 of 15 tries on the evening (93 percent), including 10-for-10 in the second half...
Though Harvard now carried the momentum and Crimson netminder Grant Blair was in good form, a string of penalties allowed Princeton repeated opportunities to get back into the game...
...coalition of student groups known as the Coalition for a Just World erected the plywood, sheet metal, tree branches, and string structures...